Xinhua news, 23 december, beijing: the industrialization of patents for the growth of small and medium enterprises - intellectual property to create a good environment for innovation
Xinhua journalist song sun
Small and medium-sized enterprises (smes), which connect many families and are widely distributed across all sectors, are important agents in promoting innovation, promoting employment and improving livelihoods. How can the industrialization of patents facilitate the growth of smes? What is the status of patent innovation for smes in our country? The national intellectual property authority held a press conference on the subject。
Continue to promote deeper integration of productive studies
“in recent years, the national intellectual property agency has been working with various sectors and localities to promote synergy between smes and universities, scientific institutions and technology interfaces in order to accelerate the growth of smes through the industrialization of patents.” according to wang pei, director of the department for the promotion of the application of intellectual property in the national intellectual property administration, between january and november of this year, there were 55,000 licences for the transfer of patents to institutions of higher learning and research throughout the country, an increase of 19. 1 per cent over the previous year。
The national intellectual property agency (inip) has a two-way drive from supply and demand to promote the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises through the integration of the stock of patents in institutions of higher learning and scientific research and the industrialization of patents, and the deeper integration of innovation and industrial chains from both the supply and demand sides. Support has been provided to 110 institutions of higher learning in the pilot demonstration of intellectual property rights, to the development of 10,531 demonstration enterprises of intellectual property advantages and to the continuous upgrading of intellectual property management and innovation capabilities of all parties involved in research and development。
In addition, the national intellectual property agency (inip), through a system of patent booking of the stock of institutions of higher learning and research throughout the country, on the basis of the completion of a patent inventory of the stock of institutions of higher learning and research throughout the country, will convert 940,000 patents from the pool, match 450,000 enterprises by industry subdivision area, promote efficient matching of stock patents with smes, and achieve co-optivity among productive research and development parties。
It stimulates the emergence of more specialized new giants
The deputy director-general of the small and medium enterprises bureau of the ministry of industry and informatization presented that intellectual property rights (iprs) can directly reflect the quality of innovation in enterprises and are key core indicators in the new system of tailored evaluation indicators. At present, there are 146,000 new and specialized “small giants” enterprises and over 140,000 new smes。
The niche new “small giants” enterprises have a dynamic intellectual property output. At present, the number of patents on inventions is 32,274 thousand, or 11 per cent of the total number of patents on inventions in the country. At the same time, its invention patent density leads. The number of invention patents per 1,000 r & d staff members is on average 364 for specialized new “small giant” enterprises and 72. 7 for r & d costs per billion yuan。
“in recent years, the ministry of industry and information technology, in conjunction with the national intellectual property agency, has been carrying out intensive work on the promotion of the intellectual property strategy for small and medium-sized enterprises (smes) in order to contribute to the innovative development of smes by raising the level of intellectual property creation, promoting the efficient use of intellectual property rights, enhancing the protection of intellectual property rights and enhancing intellectual property services.” in 2024, the patent industry for small and medium-sized enterprises (smes) programme was implemented, focusing on the patent industry as a main focus, enhancing the patent conversion capacity of enterprises and stimulating the emergence of more specialized new enterprises。
More active patent innovation for smes
“the national intellectual property authority, together with the relevant departments, is active in providing services for the innovative development of smes. As of november of this year, 73. 5 per cent of the companies in our country had a patent for effective inventions, a significant proportion of which came from smes.” according to the news spokesman of the national intellectual property agency, the latest survey data show that patent innovation for small and medium-sized enterprises in our country became more dynamic in 2024 and that protection and application capacities continued to improve。
As a new introduction, the country's incentives for patent research and development for smes are growing. In 2024, independent r & d generated 75. 3 per cent of the patents for effective inventions by smes in the country, an increase of 3. 9 percentage points over the previous year。
In addition, the patent protection capacity of smes has been further enhanced. In 2024, the proportion of rights-based measures taken by smes following patent infringement was 84. 0 per cent, an increase of 1. 3 percentage points over the previous year. Almost 40 per cent of smes have a full-time or part-time intellectual property administration and the awareness and capacity to protect intellectual property rights are further enhanced。
As a next step, the national intellectual property agency will continue to strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights (iprs), carry out intensive patent conversion and application initiatives, continuously optimize public intellectual property services, continue to create a sound innovation and business environment, contribute to the innovative development of small and medium-sized enterprises (smes) and provide strong support for accelerating the development of new quality productivity。
